Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time is undoubtedly one of our most anticipated PS3 releases of 2012

We're enormous fans of the Sly Cooper trilogy, and have been longing for a great mascot-driven platformer on PS3 since 2009's Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time. While Thieves In Time doesn't have series creator Sucker Punch at the helm, developer Sanzaru looks like its doing a bang-up job staying faithful..

"Meh," sneered one forum post we read on Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, "Still looks like a PlayStation 2 game

" What planet are these people living on? The latest Sly Cooper title from Sanzaru Games retains the glorious visual style of Sucker Punch's Sly titles for sure, but it looks like a huge advancement from where we're standing. Seriously: game looks purrdy.

Sanzaru Games -- the developer of the upcoming PlayStation 3 title, Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time -- has hinted at the possibility of the Sly franchise making the jump to PlayStation Vita

In an interview with Geoff Keighley on GameTrailers, Sanzaru Games president, Glen Egan, slyly avoided the issue when asked about the possibility of the platforming franchise coming to Sony's new handheld..

Sanzaru Games has released the first footage of Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, and it's left us itching for more

Regular readers will know we're big proponents of the Sly Cooper franchise, so it's personally very exciting for us to see the franchise make a return on PS3. Despite Sucker Punch not being at the helm, we have every faith in Sanzaru Games. During the game's showcase, Sanzaru president..

The will-it-won't-it of Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time has officially been put to bed

It definitely will. Sony has announced that the platforming icon will return to PlayStation 3 this year in a new adventure called Thieves In Time. Sanzaru Games is heading up development duties, with Sucker Punch supposedly hard at work on a new PlayStation related IP.